Media

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I. How Media Shape Reality

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A multitude of everyday events and scenes narrows through a large optical lens into a selected media image.

Part 1 January 14, 2023 16 min

When the Media Do Not Merely Report Reality, but Shape It

How gatekeeping, framing, sources, ownership, and algorithms determine which part of reality becomes news and what picture of the world audiences receive.

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II. War, Access and Permissible Images

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A camera and a collage of war, political, and television images merge into an explosion and a mass audience.

Part 2 / 15

Part 2 January 15, 2023 21 min

How Consent for War Is Created

From mass war propaganda to Tonkin and Iraq: how uncertainty, source selection, and political framing can help manufacture public consent for war.

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A war cameraman films a heavily destroyed city.

Part 3 / 15

Part 3 January 16, 2023 24 min

The War We Do Not See: When the Journalist Becomes Part of the War

Embedded reporting, restricted access, and camera framing can create a misleadingly incomplete picture of war even without proof of deliberate censorship.

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A person inside a damaged building looks out over a devastated urban landscape.

Part 4 / 15

Part 4 January 18, 2023 24 min

Israel and Gaza: How the Media Shape the Permissible Image of War

How narrative starting points, language, victims, sources, and legal terms shape the permissible media image of the war between Israel and Gaza.

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III. Message Uniformity, Fear and Repetition

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An empty podium crowded with microphones and cameras before a press conference.

Part 5 / 15

Part 5 January 19, 2023 22 min

One Voice, One Message

When useful crisis coordination crosses the line into management of the information environment, uncertainty, and public behaviour.

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A person in a dark living room watches a television filled with intense crisis imagery.

Part 6 / 15

Part 6 January 20, 2023 20 min

Fear Sells

Why negativity, records, shocking images, and relative risk attract attention, and how journalism can become an industry of anxiety.

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A large array of loudspeakers above a city symbolizes one message spreading through many channels.

Part 7 / 15

Part 7 January 21, 2023 21 min

When Many Media Outlets Speak with One Voice

A hundred logos do not mean a hundred independent newsrooms: agencies, ownership, costs, and centralized distribution can create an appearance of plurality.

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IV. Who Defines the Boundaries of the Information Space?

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Stacks of documents move through a sorting mechanism symbolizing institutional classification of information.

Part 8 / 15

Part 8 January 22, 2023 22 min

Who Decides What Is Disinformation?

How error, disinformation, and open questions differ, and what happens when expert labels are combined with the distribution power of platforms.

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V. Slovenian Case Studies

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A person stands behind a glass wall looking into a bright institutional space.

Part 9 / 15

Part 9 January 24, 2023 33 min

Slovenian Media During the Epidemic: How the Reality of COVID Was Created

What Slovenian media emphasized during the epidemic, how claims changed, and when reporting moved from informing toward moralizing and behavioural pressure.

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Newspapers, a phone, and war scenes with a Ukrainian flag symbolize a media-mediated view of war.

Part 10 / 15

Part 10 January 25, 2023 18 min

Slovenian Media and the War in Ukraine: Who Speaks and Whom Do We Believe?

From predictions of rapid Russian collapse to Snake Island and casualties: how sourcing, uncertainty, and headlines can turn wartime claims into apparent facts.

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A person watches floating newspaper, television, and online images converge into a single focus.

Part 11 / 15

Part 11 January 26, 2023 14 min

The Anatomy of a Slovenian Headline: How Information Becomes an Impression

How a headline can remove a qualification, turn association into causation, or increase certainty and present a stronger claim than the article supports.

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VI. The Authority of Truth

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Hands above documents, labels, and a globe symbolize institutional classification of information before an audience.

Part 12 / 15

Part 12 January 27, 2023 17 min

Who Decides What Is True?

Fact-checkers, platforms, and algorithms can correct errors, but labels, editorial judgments, and distribution decisions are not the same thing as truth.

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